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Most message board people go to a game every now and then or attend mbb and just see the front of the curtains. The real issue is the BoT and Fred have been SO dumb at advancing athletics that an idiot like May can just run free and unchecked as long as he keeps kissing a few peoples butts with a smile. It’s a mediocre operation on a good day with a short handed staff, which they allow May to hire with such terrible judgement. He would destroy Apple or Google within a week of being in charge. Average person has no idea how behind the times SLU is in college sports right now. Staffing, budgets, scholarships, NIL besides MBB and I don’t need to even mention facilities. It’s bad folks.

Not as crazy, but I believe the same can be said about Brian McBride and maybe Reyna or one of his other USMNT teammates. I'll have to look.

Only at SLU can not improve any facilities, besides CC and soccer which certain donors really stepped up regardless of who AD is/was, not promote one single person upward, and hire 3 mbb coaches, 2 of which failed….multi-million $ failures at that. It’s beyond comprehension when you list it all out.

AD Castiglione = 32 ADs AD May = 0 ADs If after 18 years as an AD and you’ve helped absolutely nobody move up within the industry, you aren’t a good mentor or leader. What a true visionary. If nobody sees a problem with this, then I am crazy and on top of all of this most former SLU employees leave the industry all together according to people close to department. Incredible.

Interesting. I didn't know he was back in the states. Hertha had their Christmas training in 2019 in Tampa and played a friendly there that I got to see him play. My favorite SLU road game of all time was in 2003 when SLU with Vedad played at Furman, who happened to have a freshman forward named Clint Dempsey. SLU won 1-0 in OT. Crazy that that game would have two freshmen that would go on to become World Cup stars

What an amazing year he had at SLU! HE led the nation with 24 goals in 2001, playing alongside terrific offensive weapons Brad Davis and Jack Jewsbury, both of whom were long time professionals. He did play briefly in MLS and Europe and represented his home country Botswana in international tournaments.

I don’t think it has been mentioned on the site, but Vedad resigned his position as an assistant coach with the NY Red Bulls last month. He had followed Sandro Schwarz from Hertha to the Red Bulls.

Not a new card but got this authentic shirt for about $10+ ship. Very cool. After leaving SLU he scored the first World Cup goal in Bosnia's history and became a terrific striker in the Bundesliga for several years.

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Yes, but the thought is if a public university sells or profits from their share of a start up the state (the people) benefits from it as opposed to a private institution.

He was good. And only transferred to SLU because Currier moved on. The good old days.

Dipsy Selolwane worked out well.

Thanks for the kind words. Perhaps the mix of Women and Men’s posts led to some confusion. My post to which you are referring was exclusive to Women and Girls soccer based on a DiMaria follow up. Others inquired/posted about her specifically. It would help alleviate some confusion by moving some of the Women’s posts to the Women’s thread. ……………… Girls: U16 STLDA, U17 LFA are teams that advanced to national finals. SLU Women recruit from ECNL, GA, and even USYS. ……………….. I can also post about Boys MLS Next, ECNL, other for boys teams too. Usually my posts are related to SLU here. 2 of DiMaria’’s family members played/will play for SLU and she is a top SLU Women’s target. …………. Since we are here: In recent MLS Next Cup U17 Gallagher (SLSG) Academy team had a great run to the national quarterfinals, in MLS next Boys this Summer for example before losing to Weston FC. It turned heads because Gallagher often loses players to City Academy, as do all if the other local club teams. Prior to losing to Weston FC, they defeated Bayside snd FC Dallas among others to get there. U15 STL City Academy almost won the entire thing before losing 1-1 (4-5) PK’s to Philly in the semis. …………. In ECNL Boys: the U17 Gallagher ECNL team was the only SLSG team that made the Final 8 in Richmond. This would be your grandson’s team. Congrats to him and good luck to him as they play Concorde Fire Platinum (Atlanta) in the National Quarterfinals July 17th. The difference between MLS Next and ECNL on the boys side is MLS Next is full time academy ball, and possibly even playing for an academy in another city as a teen. ECNL ball has the local high school playing option along with ECNL in Spring/Fall. Many do both. While schools like SLU often recruit MLS Next, they also recruit ECNL players and elsewhere too. The Anderson brothers were ECNL. An incoming Freshman from Seattle, etc.. …………. in recent years, SLSG girls won back to back ECNL national championships at U16 and U17 with the same team. Their first ever. Many of those players were 2024, and a few 2025. One was a 2026. ………… In GA, 2 different Lou Fusz girls teams won back to back U16 national titles. These would mostly be 2025 and 2026 players. ………….

Sorry for your loss. Unfortunately, your information is not exactly correct. My grandson is the keeper for the U-17 boys, who qualified for Richmond. I’m pretty sure they are the only SLSG team to advance past the round of 16. It was awesome for us. He saved the last try to help send them on. Makes all the time, travel and money worth it!!

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You’re welcome. Any time. And thanks for the kind words.

Thanks for clarifying @courtside, that is good news for the program. I am sorry to hear about your news though, hang in there.

While I’m here I meant to post that in the end DiMaria (ECNL) ended up playing with her regular 08 team instead of the older group. (SLU commits Marsh and Bartholet on that team). They won their group but lost to NV Courage Academy in the Round of 16 in San Diego. One more win would have been Final 8 in Virginia. The U19 team lost to Solar in Round of 16, but they didn’t lose again and they won their consolation bracket. U16 didn’t make it out of group. (Current 2027 targets mostly) (maybe half a dozen targets at most in this group) U15 was only Scott Gallagher team to make the National Final 8. ………… In Girls Academy, 08 Lou Fusz made the Finals event as did STLDA 09. Handful of targets combined. ………… Someone can move some of the Women’s posts to Women’s Soccer. Some of the DiMaria questions and comments originated here. …………..

Nice haul today…Pat Clohisy’s first professional card and a cool 8x10 of him with the Braves in Spring Training.

I just asked. Jeremi will play another year at this time. That wasn’t the initial plan or expectation. He left to try to work something out professionally. That was his first choice. He has eligibility because he played smaller division before SLU. It was going to be Mason Hart, pushed by younger/new guys. But the opportunity to have Jeremi combined with Mason transferring, changed that. Roster limits also changed a few things too. This is recently updated and accurate. SLU Men’s Soccer didn’t update their website until recently. One incoming SLU keeper is taking a gap year in part because of the situation. https://slubillikens.com/sports/mens-soccer/roster I have a lot going on at the moment as some may know. We had an unexpected death in the fam. Someone very close to us. So I am scrambling with a lot of other things. But the short break distractions here and there like this are good. This should be correct now and I will let you know if it changes. If people want to know where people end up, I have all of those going back many years. i just don’t post outgoing, only incoming. Where is Cole,(Fairfield) or Jack (Akron) (Mads went to Brown before last year etc…or whomever? Just send me a message as well if I don’t post it.

My apologies for the confusion, I was referring to the Embry Riddle transfer. Thanks for the clarification. He is on the www.slubillikens.com roster when other May graduates have been removed, but I understand that those can be a work in progress. Do you have any early insight on the GK position @courtside?

2 things: 1) Jeremi has moved on to professional soccer. But yes he moved up divisions (or program levels) as happens way more often with International players. 2) Fabian Hilpert spent the Spring on SLU’s team from Embry Riddle in Florida. He then transferred to South Florida after Spring semester. 3) International players often don’t know and don’t care about divisions, conferences, leagues etc until they arrive in the states. Then they transfer to higher divisions and programs. There are some finds. Programs such as Missouri State take 2 big ling International Recruiting trips a year. in addition to video and recommendations on players. The heavy International teams plan and budget for those trips. South Florida and Portland have strong recruiting classes. SLU is 9 for 2025. That may improve because it doesn’t include 3 new May players. @WUH

No I mean he transferred from SLU…unless I’m slipping

Abonnel is one of those rare NAIA transfers. I say rare, but I really have no idea how many guys make the transition from NAIA to Division I.

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